Sinn Féin’s Mark Lohan will attend his first local authority meeting this afternoon (Monday) as Galway’s newest city councillor. Mr Lohan was chosen to fill the...
Plans to dig up an unofficial 1916 stone in Mervue have been shelved – for now – but the area is set to get another commemorative...

Galway City Council is to remove a controversial 1916 commemorative stone in Mervue, which has caused a political row since its unveiling on Holy Thursday. Chief...
Lightning is about to strike twice for one Ballinasloe family with a lucky son following in his father’s footsteps onto Winning Streak. Former Ballinasloe and Galway...
Sinn Féin will be carrying out a post mortem on the party’s support in Galway West after failing to win a seat, despite an exceptionally strong...
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams vowed that his party would deliver for the Gaeltacht if it leads the next Government – claiming Fine Gael and Fianna...

Lifting the ban on bedsits could help to alleviate the shortage of student accommodation in the city, which is causing rents to spiral. Sinn Féin in...

World of Politics with Harry McGee – harrymcgee@gmail.com It was the American showman Phineas T Barnum who was supposed to have coined the phrase there’s no...